Lap times for the 2014 F1 Singapore Grand Prix

Problems in Rosberg’s car’s wiring loom just before the start of this Grand Prix predicted a troublesome race for the German driver who had to retire after several laps. This handed over a lot of points to his team mate Lewis Hamilton —who enjoyed a clean weekend— in their race for the Driver’s Championship.

This was the best finish of the year for Sebastian Vettel, finishing ahead of team-mate Daniel Ricciardo. The Safety Car played an important strategic role. Until then, Fernando Alonso was holding 2nd place and would have made a podium if he hadn’t got to pit to get on a set of tyres he could run to the end of the race with.

Further back, Kimi Raikkonen got stuck behind Felipe Massa, who used and aggressive three stop strategy to jump ahead of the Finn. On the other hand, Valtteri Bottas had a good chance to finish in the points but the grip on his tyres faded away in the closing stages of the race dropping form P6 to P11.

Jean-Eric Vergne equalled the best result of his career so far with sixth place, but was given five-second penalties on two occasions.

Following, I provide the plots so you may draw your own conclusions.

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Average pace

This plot shows the difference to the average pace of the race winner. That is, the difference to the average lap time, including pit stops.

The steeper the curve, the faster the lap; and as the curves are generated from cumulative sums of lap times, a negative slope implies a lap time which is quicker that the average.

Position

This one is straightforward; it shows the position of the driver each lap.

Lap time statistics

This is a box-and-whiskers plot. It depicts each driver’s laps through their quartiles. The whiskers represent the lowest datum still within 1.5 IQR of the lower quartile, and the highest datum still within 1.5 IQR of the upper quartile. Suspected outliers are more than 1.5 IQR but less than 3 IQR above Q3 or below Q1 and are represented by an open circle. Anything 3 IQR above Q3 or below Q1 is represented by a filled circle.

Driver championship points

This plot lets us see a drivers progress during the season in terms of points towards the championship. Both Hamilton and Rosberg are alarmingly increasing their gap with the rest of the drivers.

Team championship points

This plot shows us the teams’s progress during the season in terms of points towards the championship. Mercedes is a large step ahead of the rest.

Finish status

Here we have a bar chart showing each drivers finish status, i.e., whether the car finished the race or what was the cause of the retirement.

Source: Ergast Developer API

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